American Champion Designer's Fancy Dancer TP

 3/14/1988 - 6/25/2002

Some of you may remember her in the 2000 Veteran's Sweepstakes.
I think she may have been the oldest poodle entered.  She would have been 12 then.
The judge asked me if she knew what she was doing there as she was so old, and I told him of course.
She headed into the down and back with a straightforward trot, and carried herself proudly like a very courtly dowager queen with a great deal of dignity and when we came back she did a perfect stack for him.
He told me that it was very obvious that she remembered what she was doing.
The crowd was so very kind to cheer her that day.

She will not be forgotten.
Her traits live on in progeny from
Ch LeFleur Boomerang To Parade:
Ch Designer Kamann's Parade TP (Candace Hume's Macy)
Ch Designer's Academy Award TP  (Oscar, sire to many champions)
Ch Designer's Emmy Award
Ch Designer Wm The Conquerer
Designer's Noble Bobbie McGee.
and from Ch Parade Kiss and Tell:
Ch Designer's Show and Tell (sire to my Angel), and
Ch Designer's See and Tell

She was originally owned by Rose Marie (Sue) Julig and came to live with
me when Sue was reducing the number of dogs in her kennel.  She was a
lovely old girl, and was apparently a puppy back to Sue from one of her dogs.

Fanny was the grandmother to my Angel, Am/Can/Int Ch Tanzen Muffin's Dream CGC TP

"If It Should Be"

If it should be that I grow weak,
And pain should keep me from my sleep,
Then you must do what must be done,
For this last battle cannot be won.
You will be sad, I understand,
Don't let your grief then stay your hand,
For this day more than all the rest,
Your love for me must stand the test.
We've had so many happy years,
What is to come can hold no fears,
You'd not want me to suffer so,
The time has come, please let me go.
Take me where my need they'll tend,
And please stay with me until the end,
I know in time that you will see,
The kindness that you did for me.
Although my tail its last has waved,
From pain and suffering I've been saved.
Please do not grieve, it must be you
Who had this painful thing to do,
We've been so close, we two, these years,
Don't let your heart hold back its tears."

Author unknown